“The concentration of population growth in the poorest
countries will make it harder for those governments to eradicate poverty and
inequality, combat hunger and malnutrition, expand education enrollment and
health systems, improve the provision of basic services and implement other
elements of a sustainable development agenda to ensure that no one is left
behind”
Excerpt from the
United Nations Population Division paper presented at the 2015 Joint
Statistical Meetings in Seattle on Monday August 10th 2015
As many of my reader must be well aware, we're heading for a
population crisis.
Estimates from the United Nations Population Division
presented on Monday August 10th 2015 at the 2015 Joint Statistical Meetings in
Seattle projects a global population of 11.2 billion by 2100 as stated in the
article “World
population to top 11 billion by end of century” published August 10, 2015
by Amanda Schupak, CBS News.
Currently the world's population is estimated to be around 7
billion. According to the United States Census Bureau, they estimate that it
had reached and passed this milestone on Monday March 12th, 2012. A
separate estimate by the United Nations Population Fund points to an earlier
date of Monday October 31st, 2011.
We humans seem to be at our most productive on a Monday,
apparently!
Their estimates are based on computer simulations using
historical data, they came up with this figure, which is the midpoint between
9.5 and 13.3 billion people.
By 2050 we'd have
already reached 9.7 billion people, all growth driven by the expansion of Africa and India, both of which
is poised on the cusp of greatness.
However this isn’t good news, as that means they’ll be more
mouths to feed!
United Nations
Population Division says 11.2 billion people by 2100 - Why Africa and India
leading the Population Explosion
This sounds about right, as the UNFAO (United Nations Food
and Agriculture Organization) had predicted on Monday May 13th 2013
in a 200 page report as explained in my blog article
entitled “United
Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says Insects is the Meat for the next
20 years - Soylent Green may be avoided via Indiana Jones and the Temple of
Doom”.
In that report, the UNFAO basically said that we'll need to
switch to insects as meat or develope 3D Printing technologies to make meat by 2030.
In that article, they'd also projected a human population of 9 billion by 2030.
So this latest declaration seem just right, especially about
Africa and India as noted in the article “World’s
Population To Top 11 Billion by 2100”, published 8/10/15 By Stav Ziv, Newsweek.
Africa is the last continental space of land to be fully
conquered by human civilization, with as much as 50% of Africa being
uninhabited by humans and a fraction of its resources being fully exploited.
Their population is projected to balloon to 5.6 billion by
2100, up from the current 1.2 billion as noted in the article “World
Population Will Exceed 11 Billion By 2100: Are We Ready?”, published August
12, 2015 By Jim Algar, Tech Times.
India is in growth spurt and will definitely surpass China,
making them very attractive to Telecom Providers and smartphone handset makers
as pointed out in my blog article
entitled “Xiaomi
in India after success in China - Xiaomi Looks to the West as the World is
theirs for the Taking”.
But the question I have to ask is; which country currently
consumes the most meat?
Who eats the most
meat – Surprising statistics on the World’s Meat Eaters
According to Forbes and analyst Statista, the country that
eats the most meat currently is, surprisingly, Australia as per the infographic
below:
Please note when I say “meat”, I'm referring to meat from
Animals such as cows, goats, pigs and sheep. It's good to note that eating
these animals is a Western Tradition; the rest of the world mainly consumes
insects as the video below suggests.
To break down the figures for my readers, here are the meat
consumption figures per capita for 2013:
1.
205 lbs for Australia
2.
200.6 lbs for United States
3.
189.6 lbs for Israel
4.
187 lbs for Argentina
5.
183 lbs for Uruguay
6.
172 lbs for Brazil
No surprise there, except for Australia, being as they’re
mostly desert, I’d never figured them to be the top meat eaters in the world!
So what alternatives do we have to growing cows, goats, pigs
and sheep that’s more efficient and can meet the coming future demand for
protein?
How to feed 11.3
billion people - Dulce Seaweed for meat as future food may come from the Sea
Insects are a more efficient producer of protein and can be
processed into more edible, aesthetically pleasing form as a French startup
Yinsect, is attempting to do as noted in “French
Food Startup Aims To Sell “Insect Meat”Around The World”, published
2015-07-17 by Dominique Nora, WorldCrunch.
Meat can potentially be grown from amino acids using
genetically modified bacteria as Silicon Valley Startup Calysta is trying to do
in order to satiate future meat demand as explained in “Mystery
Meat Is About to Get a Lot More Mysterious”, published July 18 2015 By
Anrica Deb, OZY.
So too does making meat from vegetable proteins, such as egg
as Hampton Creek and their Egg Replacement recipe that sues a blend of plant
proteins to replace Eggs as explained in my blog article
entitled “Hampton
Creek Foods and their Plant Protein Egg Replacement – Global Egg Industry to
get the Kibosh by 2017”.
Finally there is algae grow in large underwater Farms such
as Dulce Seaweed Algae, which researchers at Oregon State University have
discovered is not only nutritious but also taste like bacon when fried as noted
in my blog
article entitled “Oregon
State University discover Dulce Seaweed Algae taste like Bacon - How Dulce can
solve UNFAO's Meat Crisis in 2025 and also make Beer”.
So in a quick snap, there are many sources of meat protein
in the future that are being developed by Researchers world! With a population
boom looming on the horizon and many of our resources running short, we need to
start planning for the future from now.
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